13 Jokes That Every Math Geek Will Find Hilarious - SFGate: "A physicist, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting on a bench across from a house. They watch as two people go into the house, and then a little later, three people walk out.
The physicist says, 'The initial measurement was incorrect.'
The biologist says, 'They must have reproduced.'
And the mathematician says, 'If exactly one person enters that house, it will be empty.'"
That figures: Professor who had to work at Subway dazzles world of maths after solving centuries-old prime number riddle - Science - News - The Independent: "A university professor who was forced to work at Subway when he couldn't find a job as an academic has solved a prime number riddle that has puzzled the best mathematical brains for centuries.
Dr Yitang Zhang was enjoying the summer holiday in a friend's back garden in Colorado last year when it suddenly occurred to him that he could make a major breakthrough in the field of analytic number theory.
Prime numbers - which are only divisible by one and themselves - often come in pairs that differ by two. Five and seven, for instance, or 11 and 13. They're known as twin primes.
As numbers get larger, it becomes harder to find prime numbers. But for hundreds of years, mathematicians have believed there are an infinite number of these pairs - known as the twin prime conjecture.
While Dr Zhang could not prove that there are an infinite number of twin primes, he has found that there are an infinite number of prime pairs separated by less than 70 million. It may sound like a colossal gap, but he has essentially wrestled that figure down from infinity."
The Consequences of Machine Intelligence - Moshe Y. Vardi - The Atlantic: "The question of what happens when machines get to be as intelligent as and even more intelligent than people seems to occupy many science-fiction writers."
The Most Controversial Math Problems - Business Insider: "Mathematics has little surprises that are designed to test and push your mental limits. The following 12 simple math problems prove outstandingly controversial among students of math, but are nonetheless facts. They're paradoxes and idiosyncrasies of probability. And they're guaranteed to start an argument or two. "
